PERCY Prologue
I'm done. Done with prophecies, done with quests, done with fake happiness, the lot. Done with cracking jokes to try and dispel what Tartarus has done to me. I'm letting it come naturally, and I have a future now. Even the gods had to agree that this was too much. After leaving Piper, Leo, and Jason to deal with Gaia on their own and coming back successful and alive, I couldn't help thinking, Enough. It's over.
The gods are stupid for putting Annabeth and I through this; none of them have any decency. They didn't DARE put us through anything more, or else I am gonna storm up to Olympus and kick their and the Fates' sorry-
"Percy, are you alright?" Annabeth was staring at me, concern and fear written all over her face. I smiled at her, her princess curls, gray, almond shaped eyes looking fierce and beautiful.
"Sorry, Wise Girl, just thinking about how stupid the Fates are."
Her eyes darkened too. "Yeah.", before she frowned, looking kind of fearful, but the fire in her eyes didn't leave. "What if they heard that?!" she asked, staring up at the ceiling. Considering what happened next, I'd say they heard.
"They wouldn't dare. A- After all we've been through? I can't see it."
Actually, I was going to say, "At least, they BETTER NOT, THOSE-" but then I decided against it. Annabeth had a point. Heck, she always has a point. Wise Girl. My Wise Girl.
"Seaweed Brain, if-" She never finished.
Tyson and Grover burst into the dining pavilion, Grover breathing hard. "PERCY! Ra-"
"Brother! Ella is here-
"TYSON! LET ME FINISH!" Woah. If Grover is interrupting Tyson by screaming, this is either a really big deal, or this was Grover's evil clone. Grover flinched slightly before saying, "Rachel is saying a prophecy, and it sounds important." Annabeth and I exchanged darkly significant looks. "Plus… I think it has the two of you in it, plus some other-" Annabeth and I ran to the big house, shoes barely touching the ground, My heart was beating fast and hard, Annabeth looking ghostly pale beside me. We were holding each other's hands tight. I didn't know when or if we even got there, all I knew was one second we were running, the next we had pulled each other close, holding each other tight and close, like we were keeping each other tethered to mortality, kissing lime nothing else mattered. Because in that moment, nothing else did. We were sobbing, falling to the floor on our knees, because both of us knew we couldn't, we wouldn't, take much more. It was gone, gone, nothing, nothing was right anymore. I yelled at the sky, pulling Annabeth close. Nothing.